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Jay Peters / The Verge:
Google adds support for 110 new languages in Translate, up from 133 languages, in its largest expansion ever, aided by the company's PaLM 2 AI language model  —  Google is adding support for 110 new languages to Google Translate, the company announced on Thursday.
Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk:
Bitcoin falls after a wallet tagged to the US government moved ~3,940 BTC, worth ~$240M and originally seized from a Silk Road vendor, to Coinbase Prime  —  About 4k bitcoin had been seized from narcotics trafficker Banmeet Singh at his January 2024 trial.  —  Bitcoin (BTC) fell …
Sarah Wynn / The Block:
Coinbase files two lawsuits against the US SEC and the FDIC for not complying with FOIA requests; one of the FOIA requests is about how the SEC views ether  —  - Coinbase, which retained consultant firm History Associates Inc. to file the FOIA requests, took aim at the SEC and FDIC …
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Progress Software discloses a critical vulnerability in MOVEit's SFTP module; hackers exploited a similar flaw in MOVEit in 2023 to breach almost 1,800 networks  —  A similar flaw last year left 1,800 networks breached.  Will the latest one be as potent?  —  A critical vulnerability …
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google announces faster Google Sheets calculations in Chrome and Edge browsers on desktop, doubling speeds for running formulas, creating pivot tables, and more  —  Google is touting significant speed improvements when performing calculations in Sheets on desktop Chrome and Edge.
Carmen Reinicke / Bloomberg:
Amazon reaches a $2T market valuation for the first time; its shares have whipsawed since the company's Q1 2024 earnings and have gained 29% so far in 2024  —  - Megacap joins Alphabet, Nvidia and more above key level  — Company's cloud unit posted biggest sales growth in a year
Katie Mettler / Washington Post:
The US DOJ indicts a Russian national, who remains at large, for his alleged involvement in the WhisperGate malware attack on Ukrainian systems in January 2022  —  A federal grand jury indicted Russian national Amin Stigal this week on allegations that he conspired with the Russian military …
Karissa Bell / Engadget:
Meta's Oversight Board issued 53 decisions in 2023 and says Meta has fully or partially implemented 75 out of 266 recommendations from January 2021 to May 2024  —  The board says it wants to weigh in on “demoted content” on Facebook and Instagram.  —  The Oversight Board has published …
Ina Fried / Axios:
Google Cloud announces deals, including with Moody's, Thomson Reuters, and ZoomInfo, to “ground” responses from its enterprise AI chatbots in real-world facts  —  - Now, Google is offering an additional option: using third-party data to help ground AI results.
Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE:
KarmaCheck, which uses AI for conducting background checks and was founded by LinkedIn's Eric Ly, raised a $45M Series B, bringing total funding to $60M  —  Background checks, credentialing and compliance software company KarmaCheck Inc. today announced that it has raised $45 million …
More: Reuters
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Orby AI, which is building generative AI agents to automate business workflows, raised a $30M Series A, sources say at a post-money valuation of $100M+  —  AI “agents” are generative AI models that can perform actions autonomously, like copying info from an email and pasting it into a spreadsheet …
More: SiliconANGLE
Joanna Chiu / Rest of World:
Citizen Lab: Microsoft censors its Bing translation service more extensively in China than its competitors like Baidu Translate and Tencent Machine Translation  —  New Citizen Lab study comes as U.S. lawmakers scrutinize Microsoft's willingness to comply with demands from Beijing.
More: WinBuzzer
Bloomberg:
OpenAI's move to cut off API access to Chinese developers sets the stage for a Chinese industry shakeup and will accentuate the divide between China and the US  —  - Local AI services from Baidu to 01.AI tout discount offers  — The abrupt move sets the stage for a Chinese industry shakeup
Financial Times:
Q&A with Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence's Zhang Hongjiang on becoming one of China's leading advocates for AI regulation, US export curbs, and more  —  One of China's leading advocates for artificial intelligence safeguards says international collaboration is key
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Figma debuts a major UI redesign, new generative AI tools, and a built-in slideshow feature, which is free in beta but will be a paid product at official launch  —  Figma is announcing a bunch of new features at its Config conference today, including a major UI redesign …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Odaseva, which provides data protection services for large Salesforce customers, raised a $54M Series C, bringing its total funding to $90M  —  Cloud services continue to be a weak point for enterprises when it comes to security, so companies providing effective solutions to address this continue …
More: Odaseva
Ceylan Yeğinsu / New York Times:
Testing ChatGPT, Vacay, and Mindtrip to plan a Norway trip shows none were perfect, but the AI chatbots streamlined travel decisions complementing one another  —  Can artificial intelligence devise a bucket-list vacation that checks all the boxes: culture, nature, hotels and transportation?
More: TechCrunch
The Information:
Slides shown to Chinese sellers: Amazon plans to launch a Temu-like section featuring cheap items that ship directly from China to overseas consumers  —  Amazon plans to launch a section on its shopping site featuring cheap items that ship directly to overseas consumers from warehouses in China …

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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Around 75% of the largest US newspapers aren't endorsing anyone for president this year, as publishers try not to annoy any sliver of their remaining customers

Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The NYT reports adding 260K digital subscribers in Q3, for 11.9M in total, with digital ad revenue up 8.8% YoY to $81.6M, and The Athletic had its first profit

Alyson Krueger / New York Times:
A profile of Town & Country EIC Stellene Volandes, who is trying to keep the Hearst-owned 178-year-old magazine relevant via social media and its website

More News

Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk:
Crypto investment app Abra and CEO William Barhydt settle with 25 US states for operating without proper licenses and will return up to $82.1M to US customers
Kate Knibbs / Wired:
Hands-on with Ray-Ban Meta's new AI translation feature, which is too rudimentary and buggy to be anything more than a novelty
More: Politico.  X: @waterslicer, @kedkorte, @andyorin, and @knibbs.  LinkedIn: Kate Knibbs.  Forums: r/technews

Earlier Picks

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Micron reports Q3 revenue up 82% YoY to $6.81B, vs. $6.67B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue in line with estimates; MU drops 7%+ after hours
Zak Butler / The Keyword:
An overview of China's Dragonbridge multiyear disinfo campaign that uses AI-generated content and spans several social networks to target geopolitical rivals
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
A look at YouTube's growing dominance as Nielsen says it had ~10% of all viewership on connected and traditional TVs in the US in May, ahead of Netflix's 7.6%
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Researchers in Rabbit R1's jailbreaking community say Rabbit left critical API keys hardcoded in its code, which would let hackers use Rabbit's internal systems
Jay Peters / The Verge:
NBCU says an AI-generated voice of legendary sportscaster Al Michaels is going to give daily, personalized recaps of the Paris Olympics on its streamer Peacock
Jessica Lyons / The Register:
Researchers: polyfill.io, which offers JavaScript polyfills, is being used to infect 100K+ websites with malware, after a Chinese CDN bought the domain in 2024
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Apple touts its device longevity in a white paper and says True Tone and battery health data will be available for third-party replacement parts later in 2024
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